Bed or furniture spring connection



(No Model.)

A.B-ELL.

BED OR PURNITURE SPRING GONNECTION. No. 323,555. Patented Au 4, 1885` a q Jl 'I WITNESSES: Er-g g NYENTOB UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE ALONZO BELL, OF PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA.

BED OR FURNITURE SPRNG CONNECTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323.555, dated August 4. 1885.

(No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may conccrn:

Be it known that I ALoNzo BELL, a citi zen of the United States, and a resident of the city and County of'Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvnnia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Securing Bed or Furniture Springs Together, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to furnish a device for connecting the npper ends of bed or furniture springs which will be simple and inexpensive in Construction, and which will permit the springs to give in any direction to conform to the shape of the person lying or sitting thereon.

In the acconpanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate similar parte throughout the several views, Figure l is a plan of four springs connected together with my inventon, and Fig. 2 is a side view of Fig. l.

A are ordinary single or double helical bed or furniture springs. B is a tightly-wonnd helical spring. C and D are rods or chains by nenns of which B is connected to A. The

springs B are furnished with hooks aor their equivnlents, to which the rods or chains which attach them to the springs A are secnred. If 'ods are used, they may be either furnished with a loop b, as shown at c in Fig. l, or they may be plain, as at B', Fig. 1. If chains are used, the center would be Secured to B and the ends to A. W'hen the springs A are pressed down nneqnnlly, the spirals B give, and while the tops of the springs A are Secured together and the said springs are kept in their proper position in relation with one another they will give freely and conforn to the shape of the body rest-ing upon them.

I am aware that spring mattresses have heretofore been constructed of helical springs connected together by links, the whole being Secured to a suitable frame, and also that helical springs have been used to connect the tops of coiled bedsprings, and hence I do not claim a hclical spring, broadly, for this purpese; but

&Vilat I do claim is- In co nbination with the bed-sprngs A, the

tightly-wound helical spring B, the ends of 

